A Selection of Recent Talks by F.S. Roberts
(this is not complete and I apologize that not all talks listed here are available electronically)

  • Defending Against H1N1 Virus, Smallpox, and Other Naturally Occurring or Deliberately Caused Diseases: How Can Graph Theory Help?
    (tutorial at First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Venice, Italy, October 2009)

  • Measurement of Pollution
    (tutorial at First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Venice, Italy, October 2009)

  • Sometimes it Pays to be Greedy: Greedy Algorithms in Economic Epidemiology
    (Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009)

  • Epidemiology: An Operations Research Approach
    (Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009)

  • Why BioMath? Why Now?
    (DIMACS BioMath Connect Institute, July 2009)

  • Why BioMath? Why Now? (BioMath in the Classroom)
    (Plenary talk at Conference on Mathematics and Biology: The New Educational Synergy, SUNY Farmingdale, April 2009)

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection: Finding Optimal Binary Decision Trees
    (Plenary talk at 40th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2009)

  • Boolean Functions I Have Known and Not Known (Memories of Peter L. Hammer)
    (talk at Workshop on Boolean and Pseudo-Boolean Functions in Memory of Peter L. Hammer, January 2009)

  • Climate and Disease
    (talk at Modeling the Impact of Policy Options during Public Health Crises, Banff International Research Station, July 2008)

  • How Modelers can Help Policymakers before and during Health Crises (The Case of TOPOFF 3)
    (talk at Modeling the Impact of Policy Options during Public Health Crises, Banff International Research Station, July 2008)

  • Voting Problems and Computer Science Applications
    (talk at Math Awareness Month Workshop on Mathematics and Voting Theory, New Jersey City University, April 2008)

  • Decision Support for Port of Entry Inspection
    (semimar at Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, January 2008)

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs (Also: REU Seminar at DIMACS, July 2008)
    (Minisymposium on Discrete Sciences Applications in Homeland Security, Rutgers University, September 2007)
    (Also, at "BuckFest! A Conference in Honor of F.R. "Buck" McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, May 2008)

  • Applications of Measurement Theory/Meaningfulness in Epidemiology/Public Health
    (Plenary talk at European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting, Luxembourg, September 2007, and at MINET - European Commission Measuring the Impossible Network Training Course, Genoa, Italy, June 2008).

  • Why Bio-Math? Why Now?
  • Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology
    (Talk at Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 2007).
    Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology - revised
    (REU Seminar at Rutgers, June 2009)
  • Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology- new version
    (Advanced Study Institute in Economic Epidemiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 2009)

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs
    (Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).

  • Locating Sensors to Detect Chem, Bio, or Nuclear Threats
    (Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).

  • Computer Science and Decision Making
    (Talk at Workshop on Voting Theory and Preference Modeling, University of Paris - Dauphine, October 2006).

  • New Challenges for Modelers of Infectious Diseases of Africa
    (Talk at Workshop on on Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases in Africa: The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2006).

  • Measurement of Pollution
    (Two hour tutorial at MAA Shortcourse on Environmental Modeling, Knoxville, 8-06).

  • Social Choice and Computer Science
    (Semi-plenary talk at EUROXXI (21st European Conference on Operations Research sponsored by the Association of European Operational Research Societies, EURO), Rekjavik, Iceland, July 2006).

  • Computer Science and the Socioeconomic Sciences
    (Presentation at Xi'An Xiaotong University, Xi'An, China, 5-06).

  • Consensus List Colorings and Physical Mapping of DNA
  • Insightful Understanding of China's Higher Education and Research in Computer Science and Information Technology
    (At Opening Ceremony for NSF Beijing Office, Beijing, China, 5-06).

  • Research Centers
    (At US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 5-06).

  • (DIMACS/DIMATIA/Renyi Combinatorial Challenges Conference, 4-06).

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs
    (Conference on Mathematical Methods in Counter-terrorism, Columbia, SC, 11-05).
    Shorter version at INFORMS Special Session on Diagnosis Models for Port of Entry Inspections, San Francisco, 11-05.

  • Graph-theoretical Problems Arising from Defending Against Bioterrorism and Controlling the Spread of Fires:
  • Graph-theoretic Models of the Spread and Control of Disease and of Fighting Fires
  • Decision Support Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection
    (Presentation at DHS meeting on "Research and Development Partnerships in Homeland Security", Boston, 4-05)

  • On Balanced Signed Graphs and Consistent Marked Graphs
    (Lecture at Workshop on Graph Colorings and their Generalizations, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, 4-05)

  • Graph-Theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease
    (Talk at Seminar on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, DIMACS, 10-04)

  • The Theory of Measurement and its Applications
    (6 hours of tutorial lectures at DIMACS Working Group Meeting on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology, DIMACS, 3-05)

  • Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?
    (Luncheon briefing for Members of Congress and Staff, House Office Building, Washington, DC, sponsored by American Mathematical Society, 9/04)

  • Competition Graphs of Semiorders
  • The RNA Detective Game: Finding RNA Chains From Fragments
    (DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting 7-04)
    (DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting 7-06)

  • Role Assignments and Social Networks
    (Brest, France Minisymposium 10-04, MAA NJ Section Meeting 3/04, DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, Budapest, 4/04 and RPI colloquium)

  • Homeland Security Research at DIMACS
    (Seminar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2-05)

  • Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?
    (Precalculus Conference, 3/04)

  • Information Processing in the Biological Organism (A Systems Biology Approach)
    (Report on a Workshop of the same name, at BISTI Symposium, NIH, 11-03)

  • Overview of Homeland Security Research at Rutgers
    (State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research, 10-03)

  • Telecom Research at Rutgers University
    (NJ Commission on Jobs, Growth, and Economic Development, 7-03)

  • The Bioterrorism Sensor Location Problem
    (Modeling and Prediction of Disease Conference 3/03; also Los Alamos National Lab 5/03)

  • The Tree of Life: Challenges for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science
    (DIMACS Tree of Life Workshop 3/03)

  • Mathematics and Bioterrorism: Graph-Theoretical Models of Spread and Control of Disease
    (DIMACS Connect Institute 7/02 and talks at West Point Discrete Math Meeting 10/02 and colloquia at Colgate and Montclair State)

  • Challenges for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science in the Defense Against Bioterrorism
    (SIAM Meeting, 7/02)

  • Consensus List Coloring and Physical Mapping of DNA
    ("Rota Lecture" at Conference on the Interconnections among Codes, Designs, Graphs, and Molecular Biology, Taiwan, 5/02; also at International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis, Irvine, CA, 8/03, and DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Generalizations of Graph Coloring 10-03)

  • Modeling and Bioterrorism: Why Model?
    (Conference on Mathematical Modeling of the Spread of Selected Bioterrorism Agents, MITRE Corporation, 3/02)

  • Voting, Metasearch, and Bioconsensus
    (NY Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist Lecture, 5/01; also at U. of South Carolina and U. of Paris IX)

  • On Social Justice, International Relations, the Analysis of Literature, and the Study of Social Networks and Communication Networks (or: On Balanced Signed Graphs and Consistent Marked Graphs)
    (seminars at DIMATIA in Prague, DIMACS REU program, and elsewhere)
    **(sorry, not available electronically right now)

  • Meaningless Statements
    (Numerous seminars/colloquia, including Waterloo, Telcordia, Duke, and DIMACS REU seminar)
    ** (sorry, not available electronically right now)

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